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LATEST NEWS

09.18.25 - From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II: A high-speed network connection between high-end computing resources at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility and the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, both located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, is enabling a collaboration to improve the rocket for the Artemis II mission.

09.11.25 - Models Explain Mysterious Feature Controlling Magnetic Properties of the Sun: UC Santa Cruz applied mathematicians produced the first self-consistent models of the Sun’s tachocline incorporating the correct dynamical ingredients. The effort leveraged NASA Ames’ Pleiades supercomputer for tens of millions of supercomputing hours over 15 months.

09.08.25 - Daily Visualizations of the Largest Wildfires in the United States: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) and Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) are sharing daily updated visualizations of the two largest active wildfires events in the continental United States throughout fire season. Leveraging NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model, the SVS and GMAO target the precise locations of these fire events and generate visualizations on NASA’s Discover supercomputer of black carbon, regional air quality, regional weather, and progression of fire.

08.27.25 - CISTO Summer 2025 Interns Contribute to NASA Information Technology Tools and Capabilities: Each year, the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center hosts a group of interns from multiple disciplines. This summer, 10 interns from across the continental United States and Hawaiʻi have been learning and contributing to NASA information technology tools and capabilities.

08.06.25 - NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier: Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the ocean depths and boosting phytoplankton growth, a new NASA-supported study has found. Using supercomputers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley and the ECCO-Darwin model, the researchers calculated that deepwater nutrients buoyed upward by glacial runoff would be sufficient to boost summertime phytoplankton growth by 15 to 40% in the study area.

07.31.25 - NASA Foundation Model Experiments Show Promise in NAS Environment: Data science experts advise agency foundation models teams on best practices for using artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) methods on systems at the NAS facility. Recently, working on the Foundation Model Experiments project in partnership with IBM, data scientists at NASA’s Marshall, Goddard, and Ames showed the value of feeding large volumes of observational data into transformer-based foundation models in order to gain real scientific insights.